Friday, 5 September 2008

John "The Mighty" (my nickname for the guy) Raskin desperately wanted everyone to know that Sarah Palin had mocked community organizers. John "The Mighty" from Manhattan spoke forth and said: "The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we're trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn't need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn't be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me."

Here's my 30-second analysis. What did people in Boston, Manhattan, LA, Atlanta, and Philly do...before community organizers came along? How did community organizers ever become a "profession"....like plumbing, mechanics, and septic tank replacement? If aliens came and took all of the community organizers in the world....would anyone really notice? And finally.....can you really make a living at community organizing?

Think about my questions for a minute before you answer....because you really might not want to give the answers. And as for John "The Mighty"? Well....don't plan any transfers to Bama....because you just might not find alot of traffic for your needs or customers to discuss organizing.

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is no more. Kwame basically gets four months of real jail (in Detroit's finest facility), has to pay the city $1 million in cash, has to give up his law license, and CANNOT run for any office for five years.

It is a shocker for some....who thought that the great Kwame would continue on the fight or at least avoid the five year no-office deal.

At 38 years old....its hard to say what happens in four months. Kwame will have to find some method of making a upscale income and for a guy with very limited talents....there are few options. I'm thinking he can likely get into the union business, and be elected to some type of position there (regional or state union boss maybe). He could be a power-broker and attempt to lead future corrupt political figures in Detroit to the right connections. Finally, he could get some corrupt charity scheme to use him as a front vehicle....and help keep his face in the media for five years.

I'm guessing he will try to talk various bigwigs into some kind of pardon....to get him off the hook....which the next governor might do....for the right amount of money.

Sadly, we will be Kwameless for five years....and it'll be a heavy weight upon our heart.

Letters From Ripley

Inspired by Letters from Seneca (124-essay effort) that brought Stoicism out of the shadows.

Stoicism is the concept of accepting pains, woes, sorrows, troubles, luck, gains, losses, and life as being "part of nature". Whatever happened yesterday...simply happened....I can learn from it, gain from it, and then just accept it. No matter what the score was....there is tomorrow and I simply need to put my best foot forward.

Me?

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood,
leads onto fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in
shallows, and in miseries. So I intend to ride out this flood upon my
virtual porch in Ripley and see where this "flood of life" takes
me...whilst sipping ice cold tea with a chunk of lemon...pondering the
comings and goings of life.